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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Catholic Heroes… St. Anthony Of Egypt, Abbot

Catholic Heroes… St. Anthony Of Egypt, Abbot

While we can understand that God is infinite, it is difficult to
comprehend the stretch of such infinity. Certainly our finite minds
cannot begin to comprehend it. Hence, since our minds our finite, the
more we have cluttering our minds with worldly affairs such as
possessions, relationships, and activities, the less time and room we
have in our minds for considering the things of God.

St. Anthony of Egypt, a young man who had been left a great estate, comprehended this truth more than anyone of his time.
Thanks to the biography written by St. Athanasius (died 373), a detailed
history of St. Anthony of Egypt is available. In 251, a Christian
couple in Egypt gave birth to St. Anthony. They lived in Upper Egypt.
Because they kept him at home to shelter him from the pagans, he grew up
knowing only edifying literature, speaking only their native language.
Before Anthony reached the age of 20, his parents died, leaving him with
a considerable fortune; he also was left with the responsibility of
taking care of his younger sister.
Only six months after the death of his parents, Anthony sat in church
listening to the sermon based on the Gospel of Matthew, “Go, sell all
that you have and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in
heaven” (Matt. 19:21). Without hesitation, he did just that.
Anthony sold his best land, sold the estate, and gave the proceeds to
the poor, keeping only a sufficient amount to support him and his
sister. Once again, while at Mass and listening to another sermon, he
heard the words of Matthew from the Sermon on the Mount: “Do not be
anxious for your life, what you shall eat; not yet for your body, what
you shall put on. Is not the life a greater thing than food, and the
body than the clothing?” (Matt. 6:25).
After this, he sold all the rest of their possessions and placed his
sister in a house of maidens — perhaps this house was one of the first
convents. In imitation of an old man in the neighborhood, St. Anthony
became a hermit living in solitude. He spent his time in prayer,
reading, and manual labor, seeking out any known holy recluse to learn
from his example about how to better serve God in solitude.
During Anthony’s solitary living, the Devil attacked him mercilessly.
First of all, the Devil tempted him with his riches, showing him all the
good he could have done if he had only kept his wealth and used it to
help others. Along with this attempt to defer Anthony from his solitude,
he strove to convince Anthony that his condition was miserable and not
necessary.
Since the Devil failed at these attempts, he tried to attack Anthony
through his imagination by bringing obscene visions. When Anthony
repulsed this temptation with even more prayer, fasting, and guarding of
the senses, the Devil appeared as a woman trying to seduce him.
Again the Devil failed and then appeared as a terrifying man. Finally in
the form of beasts, the Devil physically attacked Anthony, nearly
killing him before a friend found him and nursed him back to health.
After successfully repelling the Devil, Anthony called on God, asking
Him why He had abandoned him, to which God replied, “I stood by you and
beheld your combat; and because you have manfully withstood your
enemies, I will always protect you, and will render your name famous
throughout the Earth.”
All of this happened while Anthony had lived a retired life near his
home village for nearly 15 years. Around 285, at the age of 35, Anthony
decided to live in a more isolated place. He crossed the Nile and lived
in a ruined fort on top of a mountain. He saw no one and only received
food by a friend who threw it over the walls of the ruins.
When a man came to ask his spiritual advice, he would yell it over the
wall. Before long, a number of men built their own huts outside the
walls of the ruined fort. St. Anthony gave these seekers this advice:
Pray every morning as though you would die before evening and pray every
evening as though you would die before dawn. Fight the Devil by calling
on the name of Jesus. Do all work and pray as though it were the last
thing you will do on Earth.
In 311, because Emperor Maximian was persecuting Christians in north
Africa, St. Anthony went to Alexandria where he encouraged the martyrs
to hold fast to their faith. When the persecutions ended, he returned to
his monastery on the mountain. Although he started another monastery
nearby, he — for the most part — remained in seclusion.
St. Anthony, seeking to spend all his time in contemplation, discovered
it was too exhausting for him. Then an angel appeared to him showing him
that he should pray and work. Hence, he began to till a small garden as
well as weave mats during breaks from his hours of prayer. He found
this very helpful and encouraging.
In 355, Anthony again returned to Alexandria, this time to fight the
Arian heresy about which he had had a vision in 339, seeing a mule
kicking down the altars. He preached to audiences hungry and thankful
for the truth that he spoke. He encouraged a blind catechist, saying he
possessed a light much more valuable — the light of Christ.
While he was in Alexandria, many Greek philosophers sought to trap him,
but he easily overcame their “sophistication” with his replies.
Many who were ill and suffering visited him. Some were miraculously cured while all others left with great peace and comfort.
Some of his letters to other monasteries, to Emperor Constantine the
Great, and to other saints of his time were preserved by St. Athanasius,
giving great insight into Anthony’s simplicity and profound
understanding of God and His Son, Jesus Christ.
When someone remarked on the great number of men who had joined him to
live in utter poverty and subsist on bread and water, St. Anthony
bemoaned the time coming when monks would eat in the cities at great
tables laden with sumptuous dishes.
Before he died, he returned to Mount Colzim near the Red Sea where he
spent the rest of his years. He requested that when he died that he not
be embalmed — a practice which he saw as vanity. He asked to be buried
near his disciples Macarius and Amathus.
At the age of 105, St. Anthony died on January 17, 356. To this day the Church celebrates his feast on this date.
Dear St. Anthony, help men to see that knowledge is not the same as
wisdom. May we seek to divest ourselves of the things of this world:
riches, recognition, and comfort. Help us to know that the more we
clutter our minds with created things, the less room we have for Christ.
Amen.

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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Saint Athanasius

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."